Chapter 659: The tea that makes you completely not nervous after drinking it!!

Naoki Nagayama, who returned to Shanyingyuan, dived into his study and started rummaging through his drawers.

Although he was seized by his own subordinates to catch the words, but... since he had already promised, of course, he had to give a song...

"This song *Koi Kaze ni Nosete* is a man's song, not suitable for female idols."

Naoki Nagayama felt a bit strange when he saw this song, because among the songs he could recall, there were relatively few male singers.

Humming it slightly, he felt the brisk rhythm... and felt that his mood had improved a lot.

"*Happy Ending* will be used in *Love Generation*; *Soba ni Iru ne* is a bit reluctant to give away... *Sudden Love* will also be used in *Tokyo Love Story*..."

While muttering, he sorted out his inventory. Excluding pure music, there were only three songs left: *A Chinese Odyssey (Chinese version)*, the theme song of *The Garden of Words* *Rain*, and *Time after time ~Hana Mau Machi de~*...

Suitable for girls, only *Time after time ~Hana Mau Machi de~* was left...

"It's a pity... The *Detective Conan* manga won't come out for more than ten years... It seems that the manga artist Gosho Aoyama is still in college now..." Naoki Nagayama complained, "You can't tie him up in advance to draw Conan!"

However, this was a fast song, and the singing difficulty was quite high... Naoki Nagayama felt this more and more after playing the score on the piano next to him.

"If you don't have Mai Kuraki's singing skills, it's very difficult to sing well~"

"Well~~~ Forget it, anyway, the song is given to Masami, and it's a good song. Whether it can sell well depends on him and the singer!" Naoki Nagayama thought irresponsibly.

Anyway, even if this singer can't sing well, there will be other singers covering it, right~

After deciding, Naoki Nagayama, taking advantage of the excitement, started practicing the piano... The musical instrument he couldn't learn in his previous life, since he had already learned it in this life, naturally he couldn't give it up.

Shanyingyuan finally emitted soft melodies again~

The afternoon sun was a few degrees less enthusiastic, gentle and warm.

The dwarf bamboos surrounding Shanyingyuan became more and more lush, and the sunlight shining on the cherry tree in the courtyard made the thin leaves look like transparent green jade, covering the brown branches.

There were no fallen petals under the cherry tree, only clean dry landscape, and the coarse white sand reflected the sunlight, like crystal pearls covering the courtyard.

The white Eitaro lay on the brown wooden eaves, attracted by the piano sound from the second floor, panting lightly with his tongue out, as if enjoying the summer courtyard scenery in the music.

"So you're coming back tomorrow?"

Until late at night, it was always the phone time between Naoki Nagayama and Akina Mori.

Even if she rehearsed very late and her body was very tired, she had to chat with her boyfriend after arriving at the hotel before going to rest.

For a popular idol like Akina Mori, under high-intensity work pressure, there are often symptoms of insomnia, neurasthenia, and depression...

In order to relax, many other artists and idols started to buy drunkenness, smoke, and even started to touch drugs...

But for Akina Mori, chatting with her boyfriend was not only pouring out her longing but also an excellent mental relaxation... Talking for a while before going to bed, it seemed that dreams at night would be more beautiful.

"Hai! The rehearsal in Hokkaido is over." Akina Mori said, "Coming back to Tokyo on Monday to participate in the recording of

From late July to early September, over 15 cities, more than 30 concerts... This is a super intense schedule that requires performing almost every day!!

"Starting next week..." Naoki Nagayama sighed, "Akina is going to be very, very busy!"

"Mm... The staff has been working hard preparing for half a year... That's the only way I can finish the tour in this one month..." Akina Nakamori said, "And the fans have been looking forward to it for a long time too..."

"So this tour must be done perfectly!!"

Hearing the firm voice on the other end of the phone, Naoki Nagayama laughed: "Akina, are you putting pressure on yourself again? Aren't you afraid of being even more nervous when you get on stage?"

"Daijobu," Akina Nakamori's voice held a hint of pride, "I have a way now!"

"What way?"

"I'll drink a Zhangdao Iced Tea before going on stage!"

"?!!" Naoki Nagayama was startled, "Akina-chan, the tea you're talking about shouldn't be the tea I'm thinking of, right?!"

"Yes, it's the kind of tea Naoki-san gave me when we were in Hawaii!" Akina Nakamori didn't hide it at all; instead, her tone was full of craftiness, "I'm not nervous at all after drinking it!"

"..."

Akina Nakamori had a natural tolerance for alcohol, so she wouldn't get drunk...

But she certainly wasn't nervous anymore; Akina could be said to be very bold after drinking...

Naoki Nagayama still remembered that his waist was a bit sore that day.

"Akina, in Japan... you don't seem to be at the legal drinking age yet..." Naoki Nagayama mumbled.

"That's why I said it's tea! Zhangdao Iced Tea!" The tone on the other end of the phone was argumentative, like a stubborn child, "It's brown, sweet and sour, and has fruit... Anyone can see at a glance that it's a fruit tea!"

"Sigh... Alright, it's tea~"

Naoki Nagayama didn't try to persuade her anymore; presumably, the managers at Burning Productions had tacitly approved of this... After all, as far as eccentricities of artists before going on stage go, Akina Nakamori was already very normal.

Hearing her boyfriend agree, Akina seemed to have won a battle and was incredibly happy:

"Naoki-san went to an audition today, right?"

"Mm, today I found the little protagonist for 'Kikujiro'..."

Naoki Nagayama talked to Akina Nakamori about the casting, and then mentioned being followed by paparazzi today.

"If we don't want them to photograph our home, I'll have to be more careful when meeting you in the future." Naoki Nagayama said, "Maybe I'll have to change cars to hide my tracks, just like in a spy movie..."

As he spoke, Naoki Nagayama suddenly seemed to remember something:

"Akina, you have a driver's license, right?"

"Hai!"

In fact, she had taken the time to get it in the middle of last year, but she never had the chance to drive herself, so she hadn't used it.

"Akina doesn't seem to have her own car for the time being?"

"Mm... Because I don't have a use for it, I didn't buy one."

"Is that so... Well, you might need one in the future~ You should buy one..." Naoki Nagayama asked, "What kind of car does Akina like?"

"Eh?!! Naoki-san, are you going to buy a car for me?"

Akina Nakamori was surprised and hurriedly refused, "How can that be!! It's too expensive!"

"Haha, how expensive can a car be..." Naoki Nagayama laughed; the cost of the birthday celebration was already nearly ten million yen, "In the future, when we go on dates, we can switch to an unfamiliar car to make the paparazzi dizzy..."

Hearing that it had a practical use for their dates, Akina Nakamori didn't object anymore. In her mind, an ordinary family car would cost at most one or two million yen, which her salary for a few months could almost cover.

"Since that's the case~" Akina Nakamori began to pick out her first car, "I like blue cars! A deeper blue..."

"It's not pink?!"

"..."

"I thought girls might all like pink, red, or something like that..."

Akina Nakamori inexplicably felt hurt... "Is Naoki-san saying I'm not feminine?!"

"No, no, no... Of course not." Naoki Nagayama immediately changed the subject, "Besides the color? What kind of car does Akina like?"

"? Besides the color, is there anything else?" Akina Nakamori was stunned for a moment, then thought, "The color of the seats can be blue or red, but they must be velvet!"

"..." My mistake; girls seem to only look at the color when it comes to cars...

"Nothing else. If you don't mind, I'll handle the other things like the model, horsepower, and drivetrain~"

Naoki Nagayama said.

"Mm-hmm~"

By the time it was early morning, the two had finished their long phone call. Before hanging up, Akina said at the very end:

"Naoki-san, see you tomorrow~"

"Mm, I'll see you tomorrow~"

After entering mid-July, the rainy season had basically ended, and the summer sun grew hotter day by day. Fortunately, in the morning, the temperature was still a pleasant 22°C or so.

After walking Eitaro, Naoki Nagayama ate a simple milk bread and drove to the studio.

"Naoki-san, you're here so early today!" Even though she had seen him just yesterday, Jia Hua still greeted him enthusiastically.

"Morning, Hua-chan~" Naoki Nagayama responded with a smile, "What a hardworking employee! Otomo-san should give you a big red envelope!"

"Not at all~ Not at all~" The little girl at the front desk smiled even more brightly.

After finishing the boss's daily "pie in the sky" talk, Naoki Nagayama arrived at the office amidst the greetings of the staff.

"Otomo-san, Shuichi-san, morning!"

Sure enough, the two were already there.

"Naoki-san... You actually came today." Tomo Otomo was a bit surprised, "I thought after working overtime yesterday, you would definitely be resting today!"

"I don't have anything to do at home anyway." Naoki Nagayama handed the document bag in his hand to Tomo Otomo, "This is the song I promised Masami Inada earlier. Please pass it on to him, Otomo-san~"

"Oh?" Tomo Otomo took the document bag, surprised internally, "What on earth did Masami-kun do to make Naoki-san cough up a song?"

"..." I care about the idols under my banner too, okay!" Naoki Nagayama absolutely refused to admit he was a miser, "I heard their recent song sales haven't been very good, so I gave Masami-kun a song."

"Sales aren't good?"

Tomo Otomo had a question mark over his head; the recent record sales of the idols couldn't be called bad...

Junko Ito had consistently maintained a position in the top 50 of the Oricon charts. Yuki Saito and Chikako Aoyama were a bit sluggish this year, but they were still at their previous levels. The newcomers, Momoko Kikuchi and Kaori Kobayashi, were in their rising phase, accompanied by movie theme songs!

But with a quick turn of his mind, Tomo Otomo immediately changed his expression:

"Ah, yes... It has indeed entered a downturn... Having this new song from Naoki-san couldn't be better!"

Naoki Nagayama didn't suspect a thing and said, "Mm-hmm, but this song is a bit difficult to sing. Let Masami-san choose someone with better vocal skills."

"Mm-hmm, I will definitely instruct Masami-kun!"

Shuichi Ido watched Tomo Otomo bluffing Naoki Nagayama without changing his expression and couldn't help but shake his head... With Naoki-san's lack of attention to the company, if the two of them teamed up, they could really sideline Naoki Nagayama in minutes!

"Shuichi-san, what's wrong? Why are you sighing?" Naoki Nagayama turned around.

"I was thinking about the release of 'Love Like the Falling Rain'." Shuichi Ido also changed the subject and talked about his own movie.

"Has the release date been set?" Naoki Nagayama asked.

"It's set for this Friday, the 20th." Shuichi Ido said, "Currently, the scheduling for each theater is almost done, the promotional materials have been produced, and we've already started promoting it, but we'll start intensive promotion this week..."

"I cannot respond to Miss Tachibana's feelings..."

With your current level of anticipation, it will definitely attract a lot of people!"

Regarding the airship birthday celebration last week, everyone else who was asked denied it, but the guy with the most suspicion never made a statement... So the public naturally assumed that Naoki Nagayama was the one who did it!

So even though Naoki Nagayama hadn't appeared, his legend had already spread widely in the entertainment industry!

And besides "Playboy Naoki," he had a new nickname, "Romantic Naoki~"

After all, by using an airship to celebrate a birthday, he showed all of Japan a brand-new, romantic way to express love. It is said that a wealthy person has already chartered an airship for the coming period... Since it needs to be repainted to be displayed, there are almost not enough airships in Tokyo.

"Forget it..." Naoki Nagayama hurriedly waved his hand to refuse, and then seemed to be considering it for Shuichi Ido, "If they are all coming for me, then the audience's attention to 'Love Like the Falling Rain' will decrease!"

"... Alright then." Shuichi Ido thought that made sense.

After chatting about the distribution for a while, Naoki Nagayama sat at his desk for the first time in a long while and began to plan the shooting process and storyboards for 'Kikujiro'.

Now that the main actors had been decided, it was time to officially enter the preparation period for filming.

Asakusa in Tokyo, the Sumida River... The sand dunes and ranch in Shizuoka...

Naoki Nagayama silently thought about the images in his memory, listed all the relevant locations, and drew a rough sketch of what they should look like.

Fortunately, after recalling 'The Garden of Words' earlier, he had specifically studied sketching for a while, so these simple storyboard drafts looked quite decent.

"Naoki-san... Since when did your drawing get so good?"

Without knowing when, Tomo Otomo and Shuichi Ido were both standing behind him, picking up the storyboard sketches on the table and clicking their tongues in wonder.

"I studied sketching for a while before."

Naoki Nagayama didn't care; possessing photographic memory, drawing a few simple storyboards for a movie was a piece of cake.

"Is this Asakusa?" Shuichi Ido picked up one of them and said.

"This is a street by the Sumida River! I've been there before..." Tomo Otomo also picked up one, "However, it seems this shop doesn't exist!"

"It's a shop from the script~ We'll renovate it when the time comes..."

After Naoki Nagayama came back to his senses, he realized it was already noon; he had been working intently for the whole morning!

Tomo Otomo flipped through the sketches and suddenly felt his obsession with collecting Naoki-san's works flare up:

"Naoki-san, these storyboard drafts must be kept well!"

"In the future, in our Tree Friend exhibition hall, we can just happen to have a display case for 'Kikujiro'!"

"?" Naoki Nagayama was stunned, "Since when do we have an exhibition hall?"

"I just thought of it!" Tomo Otomo had a smile on his face, "After the company moves to the new headquarters, we must set up an exhibition hall on the first floor! We will display all of Tree Friend's famous songs, movies, and everything else!!!"

"Only then can we show the outside world the strength of Tree Friend!!"

Naoki Nagayama and Shuichi Ido looked at each other and actually thought this idea was quite good...

"Alright~ Then when designing the new headquarters, let's add this requirement!"

Just as they were about to continue chatting about this idea, Naoki Nagayama's stomach growled... As a vigorous young man, having only eaten bread in the morning, he couldn't hold out much longer.

"Hahaha, Otomo-san, Shuichi-san... For the first time in a while, let's go out and have a big meal!"